Dancing Across Borders at the Floyd Country Store

At the Floyd Country Story, in Floyd, Virginia,the community comes to dance, to play music in the street outside the store, to watch and to hang out. Six-year olds dance with old grand dads, college students, high school kids, me, you name em they are there. Some folks drive four hours every Friday to be there from Richmond, from Greensboro, from Washington DC. It's the most amazing gathering, a couple of miles off the Blue Ridge Parkway, in this tiny mountain town tucked away, a haven for community spirit. When I'm there, I do so by crossing the borders of my preconceptions, my biases, my inclinations and druthers and know betters, cross over into the magic of a community that likes and enjoys itself for what it is, that invites all to come on in the house and just dance.